March 17, 2014

At the Puerto Rican Bar Association’s upcoming annual Women’s History Month Reception, a CUNY Law professor and two CUNY Law students will be recognized.

Professor Natalie Gomez-Velez will receive one of PRBA’s Flor de Maga Awards, which recognizes exceptional Latinas in the community. Gomez-Velez currently serves on New York’s Statewide Judicial Screening Committee and on the Committee on Non-Lawyers and the Justice Gap appointed by New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. She also serves as a Trustee of the City Parks Foundation and as Chair of its Education Committee.